In this episode, we uncover hidden gold inside large quartz rocks - using nothing but our trusty metal detectors and some good old-fashioned hard work. With the help of the Minelab Gold Monster 1000, ...

Gold is extracted from a variety of geologic deposits, but it’s frequently found within quartz veins. From afar, alabaster sheets of quartz can look like bright cobwebs weaving through rock.

Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced up from deep underground. Enormous gold nuggets are often ...

Several stories tell of how in early 1895 Pearce or one of his sons discovered a quartz rock containing silver chloride and free gold in the valley. The next day, Pearce and his two sons staked ...

The researchers found that earthquakes fracture rocks and force hydrothermal fluids up into the quartz veins, filling them with dissolved gold. In response to the stress of the earthquake ...

Two occurrences of visible gold in quartz vein were found, the first in outcrop and ... contacts between the vein and host rock have not yet been adequately exposed to determine the true thickness ...

Lori Walton, Chief Executive Officer of C2C Gold Corp., commented: “We are excited to announce the visible gold found on ... between the quartz boulders and underlying host rock is unknown ...